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261 | One Way NOT to Study the Bible | 1 Sam 17:49 | Emmaus | 147942 | ||
The whole article in context. http://gregscouch.homestead.com/files/biblestudyfrom_hell.htm Here is the section just before where Doc started his quote. "The fact is that most believers already know what they’re supposed to be doing. What they lack is the motivation and empowerment to do so. On our own, we simply aren’t able to obey God. When grace comes to us, however, we aren’t on our own anymore. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us—grace makes all the difference. “Grace gives us both the motivation and the ability to live Godward lives.” "Real growth in holiness—the kind that’s in the heart first and only secondly in our actions—such growth flows not from of a desire to be good enough, but from a thankful heart that says, “I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief” (Mark 9:24)." Emmaus |
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262 | Jesus chasing out moneychangers | John 2:15 | Emmaus | 147928 | ||
John 2:15 | ||||||
263 | What is considered unsafe in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147897 | ||
kttyfx93 Disobeying God. But is there a more specific, immediate or detailed context to the question as it is presented to you? Emmaus |
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264 | What is considered unsafe in the Bible? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147895 | ||
kttyfx93 Disobeying God. But is there a more specific, immediate or detailed context to the question as it is presented to you? Emmaus |
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265 | Ref. to Luke 24....Do you believe that | John 20:15 | Emmaus | 147871 | ||
See John 20, Matthew 28 and Mark 16: 9-11(the longer ending of Mark). | ||||||
266 | Children are God's , not man's | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147818 | ||
uh-oh, Rarely if ever in this situation is one egg "donated". Rather a cluster of eggs is necessary. Some resulting embyros from the artificial insemination are implated. If more than one survives that process in the womb, then often the "excess fetruses" are aborted. Unused fertilized embryos are frozen and stored. Their future may involve litigation, straight forward destuction, selling or giving to others, or destruction in medical experiments such as embryonic stem cell research. Welcome to our Brave New World. Emmaus |
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267 | Children are God's , not man's | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147817 | ||
uh-oh, Are your parts just so many commodities to be bought and sold or traded for favors and what may be momentary good will? The college campus newspapers are full of adds offering to buy the eggs of young women. This is the maketing of human procreation. We are not far from from people farming or the selling of the rights to certain parts of our bodies as if we were selling the mineral rights to a piece of property that we own. If your egg (and a man's sperm ) becomes a child after it is fertilized you will be a mother (and the man a) father and you will have a child in the world. This is not quite the intimate setting and bonding envisioned by God in the bible is it? Think long and hard on this. When the begetting of children becomes a techonological act rather than a unitive and procreative act that God meant it to be we have entered the realm of commerce, marketing and government regulation. Sounds a lot like slavery and bondage doesn't it? And this is certainly not the same thing as adoption or giving a child up for adoption due to a personal crisis for the good of the child. One more thought. Think of all the trouble caused by Sara's desire for a son that way so great, she in the only way possible for her time, asked Hagaar to donate her egg, so Abram could fertilize it, so Sara could have a a child. It did not work out as planned did it? See Genesis 16. We are still living with the consequences in the Middle East and the rest of the world because of the conflict between Jews and Arabs and all that flows from that situation. God had another plan for Sara, but she wanted to be in the driver's seat. Who is Sara, the free woman, and who is Hagaar, the slave woman, in your situation, if you go along with your friend's request? Think long and hard. Just because something can be done, does not mean it should be done. Emmaus |
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268 | guardian angels | Matt 18:10 | Emmaus | 147355 | ||
Matt 18:10 "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven." | ||||||
269 | Confused | 1 Tim 2:12 | Emmaus | 146967 | ||
Seacher, One of my brothers lives in Birmingaham and owns a little Cobblestones shoe and repair store on the highway south of town in Alabaster, across from the Home Depot. Stop in if you are ever in the neighborhood and ask for Eric. Emmaus |
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270 | "Law" is a Metaphor? | Rom 7:23 | Emmaus | 146966 | ||
Doc, Rom 7:21-24 "I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?" "7:22 the law of sin: Traditionally called concupiscence, which is the inclination of fallen man to missues his free will in sinful and selfish ways. It manifests itself as an unremitting desire for pleasure, power and possessions. Even the baptised have to wrestle with thisinner force, although Paul insists that the Spirit can give victory over its unmanageable urges (8:2,13). So concupiscence reamins in the believer, but it need not rule us like a tyrant. (6:12-14)(CCC 405, 1426, 2520) footnote from the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible "405 Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence". Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle." http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p7.htm#III "1426 Conversion to Christ, the new birth of Baptism, the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Body and Blood of Christ received as food have made us "holy and without blemish," just as the Church herself, the Bride of Christ, is "holy and without blemish."(Eph 1:4; 5:27) Nevertheless the new life received in Christian initiation has not abolished the frailty and weakness of human nature, nor the inclination to sin that tradition calls concupiscence, which remains in the baptized such that with the help of the grace of Christ they may prove themselves in the struggle of Christian life. This is the struggle of conversion directed toward holiness and eternal life to which the Lord never ceases to call us." http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c2a4.htm#V "2520 Baptism confers on its recipient the grace of purification from all sins. But the baptized must continue to struggle against concupiscence of the flesh and disordered desires. With God's grace he will prevail - by the virtue and gift of chastity, for chastity lets us love with upright and undivided heart; - by purity of intention which consists in seeking the true end of man: with simplicity of vision, the baptized person seeks to find and to fulfill God's will in everything;(Cf. Rom 12:2; Col 1:10) - by purity of vision, external and internal; by discipline of feelings and imagination; by refusing all complicity in impure thoughts that incline us to turn aside from the path of God's commandments: "Appearance arouses yearning in fools";(Wis 15:5) - by prayer: I thought that continence arose from one's own powers, which I did not recognize in myself. I was foolish enough not to know . . . that no one can be continent unless you grant it. For you would surely have granted it if my inner groaning had reached your ears and I with firm faith had cast my cares on you.(St. Augustine, Conf. 6,11,20:PL 32,729-730) " http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a9.htm#II Emmaus |
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271 | How is the date for Easter determined? | Matt 26:18 | Emmaus | 146902 | ||
Theoran, "How is the date for Easter determined?" The Western Church uses the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. An article on the history of this subject is at the following link: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05228a.htm Emmaus |
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272 | Before Jesus death | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 146891 | ||
ARTICLE 5 - "HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN" 631 Jesus "descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens."[Eph 4:9-10] The Apostles' Creed confesses in the same article Christ's descent into hell and his Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind, your Son who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.[476] Paragraph I. Christ Descended into Hell 632 The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.[Acts3:15; Rom8:11; 1 Cor 15:20; cf Heb 13:20] This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.[cf 1Pater 3:18-19] 633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.[cf Phil 2:10;Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:8; 88:11-13] Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom":[cf Pss 88:49; 1 Sam 29:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Luke 16:22-26] "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Saviour in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell."[481] Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.[482] 634 "The gospel was preached even to the dead."[1 Peter 4:6] The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption. 635 Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live."[Jn5:25; cf Matt 12:40;Rom 10:7; Eph 4:9] Jesus, "the Author of life", by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage."[Heb 2:14-5; cf Acts 3:15] Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death and Hades", so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth."[Rev 1:18; Phil 2:10] Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . . He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him - He who is both their God and the son of Eve. . . "I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead."[487] IN BRIEF 636 By the expression "He descended into hell", the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil "who has the power of death" (Heb 2:14). 637 In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him." The Catechism Emmaus 475 Eph 4:9-10. 476 Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 18, Exsultet. 477 Acts 3:15; Rom 8:11; I Cor 15:20; cf. Heb 13:20. 478 Cf. I Pt 3:18-19. 479 Cf. Phil 2:10; Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:6; 88:11-13. 480 Cf. Ps 89:49; I Sam 28:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Lk 16:22-26. 481 Roman Catechism 1, 6, 3. 482 Cf. Council of Rome (745): DS 587; Benedict XII, Cum dudum (1341): DS 1011; Clement VI, Super quibusdam (1351): DS 1077; Council of Toledo IV (625): DS 485; Mt 27:52-53. 483 I Pt 4:6. 484 Jn 5:25; cf. Mt 12:40; Rom 10:7; Eph 4:9. 485 Heb 2:14-15; cf. Acts 3:15. 486 Rev 1:18; Phil 2:10. 487 Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday: PG 43, 440A, 452C; LH, Holy Saturday, OR. |
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273 | How long on earth after His death? | Acts 1:3 | Emmaus | 146889 | ||
Acts 1:3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. | ||||||
274 | What is a fatal sin? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 146876 | ||
gram25boys, Fatl or moratal sins are not necessarily unforgiveable, athough the Bible does speak on one sin, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, as unforgiveable. Murder, if sincerely repented of, can be forgiven as you see in the story of David and Uriah, Bathsheba's husband. I can not speak for others, but Catholics do distinguish between mortal sins and venial sins. At the link below you will find an explanation: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a8.htm#III Emmaus |
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275 | a third of angels fell from heaven | Rev 12:4 | Emmaus | 146622 | ||
Katherine, That is the interpretation of Revaltion 12:4 "And his tail *swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child." Emmaus |
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276 | were the people in melita acts 28 verse | Acts 28:1 | Emmaus | 146432 | ||
They were the people of the island of Malta, south of Italy between Sicily and North Africa and no they were not cannibals. They were pagans like the Romans and Greeks and worshipped the same pagan gods as the Romans and Greeks. | ||||||
277 | forsaken me | Ps 22:2 | Emmaus | 146429 | ||
Psalm 22 Read it here. http://www.studybibleforum.com/htm_php.php3 |
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278 | forsaken me | Ps 22:2 | Emmaus | 146427 | ||
Jesus was praying Psalm 22 which opens on a low note and end in vindication. | ||||||
279 | i need a romans study guide | Romans | Emmaus | 146418 | ||
nsjunemeade, I have a 17 part study in pdf. format if you are interested. It is very thorough Catholic Scripture Study of Romans. Let me know if you are interested and I can e-mail them to you one at a time. My e-mail address is in my profile when you click on my screen name at the top right of this post. Emmaus |
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280 | Job and Prodigal Son? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 146347 | ||
xbiblegrl69x, Ex-bible girl? Forget Job and the Prodigal Sone. They are irrelevant diversions and a changing of the subject, switching the pressure to you and from him. You don't even need a bible to figure this one out, just common sense. But a lot of people leave that behind when they leave the bible behind. Aside from suggesting you dump the boyfriend and start from scratch getting you life in order aloow me to ask this question: If you should happen to marry your boyfriend, will he think the ex-girlfriend should remain in your life. And if he marries someone else do you think she will want you to be in their life? Emmaus |
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